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Abstract
Using recent results of Agol, Przytycki–Wise and Wise we show that twisted Alexander polynomials detect the Thurston norm of any irreducible 3-manifold which is not a closed graph manifold.
Funding source: NSF
Award Identifier / Grant number: DMS-0906281
We are grateful to Genevieve Walsh for a helpful conversation. We also wish to thank the referee for carefully reading this paper.
Received: 2012-4-17
Revised: 2013-7-13
Published Online: 2013-10-8
Published in Print: 2015-10-1
© 2015 by De Gruyter
